- #1 Kingdoms and Castles
97% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Management 14.7%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 13%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #2 Fabledom
96% matchVery Positive85% of 7,484 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: City Builder 37.9%, Sandbox 18.9%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 7.1%
- #3 Make Your Kingdom
96% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Building 18.4%, Management 15.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 5.9%
- #4 A World of Keflings
95% matchVery Positive99% of 456 reviews2025
Dev: NinjaBee
Windows
Keflings may be small, but their kingdom-building adventures are gigantic! Build a world with your friends in A World of Keflings! Harvest resources, construct robots, befriend a dragon, and help a creepy witch get even creepier in this update of the classic 2010 city-building adventure.
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Building 19.9%, Management 16.4%, Resource Management 6.7%, Simulation 5.4%
- #5 Go-Go Town!
94% matchVery Positive95% of 2,153 reviews2024
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 17.7%, Management 15.6%, Simulation 7.7%
- #6 Tinytopia
94% matchVery Positive84% of 322 reviews2021
Dev: MeNic GamesPub: Mastiff
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!
Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, Building 21%, Sandbox 18.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Crafting 5%
- #7 Orrstead
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 17.9%, Management 15.3%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #8 Kingdoms Reborn
92% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 50.1%, Management 15.4%, Building 10.9%, Multiplayer 10%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #9 Airborne Kingdom
91% matchVery Positive87% of 2,369 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: City Builder 36%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Exploration 6.7%
- #10 Lords and Villeins
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 966 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Management 16.9%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #11 Fantasy Town Regional Manager
90% matchVery Positive80% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Caps Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.
Why similar: City Builder 43.7%, Building 18.1%, Management 15%, Colorful 6.9%, Fantasy 6.3%
- #12 Stonehearth
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,005 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Building 20.5%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 4.7%, Management 4.6%
- #13 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
89% matchMixed50% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 51.7%, Building 15.9%, Simulation 12.2%, Fantasy 8.9%, Colorful 6.6%
- #14 Outlanders
88% matchVery Positive90% of 491 reviews2023
Dev: Pomelo Games
Windows
Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Building 20.1%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Simulation 7.1%
- #15 Odd Realm
86% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Sandbox 16.4%, Management 16%, Building 15.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #16 Goblins of Elderstone
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 399 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Building 19.6%, Management 16.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 7.2%
- #17 Thronefall
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,974 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 56.8%, Building 20.9%, Combat 8.4%, Colorful 5.4%, Fantasy 4.7%
- #18 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,364 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: City Builder 46.9%, Simulation 18.1%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 7%
- #19 United Penguin Kingdom
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 439 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Management 19.1%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 5.4%
- #20 HammerHelm
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 387 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Building 25.8%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Fantasy 6.4%, Simulation 6.3%
- #21 Founders' Fortune
83% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Building 19%, Sandbox 15.1%, Management 11.4%, Simulation 7.6%
- #22 Airborne Empire
79% matchVery Positive88% of 851 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 12%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #23 Kingdom Two Crowns
81% matchVery Positive90% of 38,241 reviews2018
Dev: Stumpy🐙SquidPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: City Builder 39.7%, Building 22.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9%, Simulation 7.3%
- #24 Indoorlands
80% matchVery Positive82% of 271 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Building 19.1%, Management 17.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #25 Gnomoria
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,535 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Sandbox 23.2%, Building 16.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Management 4.4%
- #26 RPG Tycoon
82% matchMixed51% of 487 reviews2016
Dev: Skatanic StudiosPub: Macrocosmic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Management 20.6%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 8.3%
- #27 Settlement Survival
77% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 35.1%, Building 18.6%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #28 Hearthlands
79% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Management 16.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Simulation 8.7%
- #29 Noble Fates
78% matchVery Positive83% of 1,471 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Sandbox 19.6%, Building 17.6%, Management 15.8%, Simulation 5.6%
- #30 Let Them Trade
76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,081 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Building 17.9%, Management 16.6%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 6.1%
- #31 Mini City: Mayhem
76% matchVery Positive88% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, plan, and flourish while the time is running! Mini City: Mayhem is a chaos-filled city-builder where you build against time. Become the mayor of a tiny town, plop down tiny building blocks to build a working city to progress. Become the greatest urban planner of all time!
Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Management 20.1%, Building 18.1%, Simulation 6.4%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #32 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
77% matchMixed60% of 444 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Building 17.4%, Management 13%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #33 Coronation
78% matchMixed65% of 106 reviews2021
Dev: Twin Sword Studio
Windows
Coronation, an online medieval sandbox with player-built settlements, dungeons & economy.
Why similar: City Builder 40.8%, Management 20.2%, Combat 12.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #34 Havendock
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,898 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #35 AColony
75% matchVery Positive89% of 134 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Building 19%, Management 14.8%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Exploration 6.7%
- #36 Border Town
73% matchVery Positive80% of 302 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.9%, Building 34.6%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, Adventure 8%, Fantasy 5.8%
- #37 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Gamera Games
Windows
Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 13.8%, Simulation 8.7%, Management 7.9%
- #38 Territory: Farming and Warfare
72% matchVery Positive85% of 715 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 15%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #39 Outland Kingdoms
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: City Builder 37.9%, Building 19%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 9.5%
- #40 Dungeon Tycoon
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,830 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Management 18.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 16.3%, Simulation 7%
- #41 Civitatem
74% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 49.3%, Building 13.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #42 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Building 20.4%, Management 14.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #43 SteamWorld Build
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,156 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Building 15.7%, Management 15.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #44 Flotsam
69% matchVery Positive81% of 4,361 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Sandbox 20.3%, Building 18%, Resource Management 12.9%, Exploration 6.3%
- #45 TerraScape
68% matchVery Positive89% of 2,155 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Why similar: City Builder 50.3%, Resource Management 18.3%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Online Co-Op 15.1%
- #46 Dungeon Overseer
71% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Building 18.1%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #47 Catizens
68% matchVery Positive82% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 6.4%
- #48 Venture Valley
70% matchMixed55% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: The Singleton FoundationPub: Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship
Windows · Mac
Be Your Own Boss!
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Building 19.8%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Resource Management 10%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #49 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
71% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: City Builder 55%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 6.2%, Sandbox 6%
- #50 Castle Craft
66% matchVery Positive82% of 464 reviews2026
Dev: Twin EarthPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
Why similar: City Builder 47.4%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 20.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #51 Settlements Rising
67% matchVery Positive81% of 426 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Building 16.1%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #52 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
66% matchVery Positive85% of 739 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Management 13.7%, Combat 9%
- #53 Little Big Workshop
69% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 21.3%, Building 21%, Simulation 16.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #54 Ostriv
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,467 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Building 16.5%, Management 14.6%, Sandbox 14%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #55 STARIO: Haven Tower
65% matchVery Positive94% of 343 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #56 Tavernacle!
69% matchMixed59% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Dama Dama GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Grab your hammers and start to craft in this co-op Tavern Defense for one to four players. As a team of Dwarves, you must gather supplies and build towers to protect your beloved brewery. Learn to cooperate to achieve victory in this chaotic multiplayer game!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.1%, Combat 21.7%, Multiplayer 21.7%, Fantasy 12.7%, Adventure 9.4%
- #57 Automatic Kingdom
65% matchVery Positive89% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.
Why similar: City Builder 54.2%, Resource Management 25.9%, Building 8.7%, Fantasy 5.8%, Colorful 4.4%